CIRCLE WITH A DOT

everything reminds me of her

@YKantRachelRead *hugs* please don’t destroy your body, you need to live there

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems @jackie@social.linux.pizza Accepting that we're not more fucked up, degenerate, or worthy of love then others feels like an evergreen struggle. Of course, acknowledging this is male socialization because ego and self-confidence are not fem domains. And yet, I will remind you, anyway, you are not fucked up, not more degenerate (then some of us) and definitely worthy of love.

@semnosao @YKantRachelRead We used to be a proper country

@emily_rugburn @YKantRachelRead Unfortunately there's a whole ecosystem of """leftists""" who are just influence operation vectors for state powers that oppose the US, and which seek to inflame as much racial and ethnic tension as possible.

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems All my Jewish friends, of a my generation, were raised with the belief that Israel was their last refuge from any creeping antisemitism. I've listened and watched as they've struggled with Christian Zionists working hand-in-hand with Israel and the genocide in Gaza. It's difficult to then remind them than that antisemitism is quickly rising in the US, as self-proclaimed Israel supporters in MAGA start falling back to ur-conspiracies and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Sadly, I believe this is just going to get worse, at this point.

@YKantRachelRead nicely done.

@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems @icantchangethisname@mk.absturztau.be Critics will always twist our words, images, memes, to make us look as bad as possible. This is the nature of illogical hatred and bigotry. You cannot censor yourself out of oppression, nor can you escape it by trying to conform to it.

@Fiadh @YKantRachelRead I have a lot of thoughts about _female socialization_, particularly around how it's really a proxy for specific narratives around the experiences of white middle-class women. At some point, I'll try to organize those thoughts into a coherent post.

now that the only group in America with a majority that supports Israel over Palestine is conservatives, it's helpful to remember that conservatives don't support Israel because they support Jews.they support Israel so that Those People (people like me) can go Over There - either because they're racist fucks who believe that the solution to racial plurality is ethnostates, or so that they can eventually genocide us in order to allegedly usher in the Rapture. it was never about antisemitism or support for Jews, and it never will be.

I wish I could even tell where these spirals come from. usually it's something innocuous and my brain jumps to "people are now talking behind my back about how I'm evil."CPTSD: Never A Dull Moment [tm]